Sometimes it’s not the people you are hiring who are the problem. When employee turnover is high, it’s often the existing workforce (management) that is the problem. And make no mistake; functioning candidates who join your workforce and experience bad…
It’s typically not the big things that make someone leave an organization, but it’s a number of seemingly small “last straw” issues that get under people’s skin and will make good employees quit. One of the first questions I ask…
I admit that the task of setting personal (behavioral) goals or benchmarks can be a bit daunting. I mean, why can’t people just love and appreciate us the way we are? But for your personal and professional health, identifying behaviors…
“Your career success in the workplace of today—independent of technical expertise—depends on the quality of your people skills.” —Max Messmer (author of Managing Your Career for Dummies) Interpersonal traits on assessments measure how a person functions with others: personal &…
It’s a new year and for the past few weeks various apps, systems and calendars have been brought to my attention. To tie in with my previous post, “A New Year on the Horizon,” I’d like to share some…
“Chronologically we’re at the end of the year but the beginning of the journey.” Sarah Ban Breathnach We are fast coming up on one of my favorite weeks of the year – the week between Christmas and the New Year!…
“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” — Sheila Murray Bethel Self awareness is the first step in…
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” Hans Margolius It’s sometimes called the “ripple effect” when something disturbs still water, and what had started as small systematically…
You always need to remain proactive in your approach to succession management. A recent Wall Street Journal article advises that “management should maintain a succession chart providing details about the background and skills of promising internal professionals and roles they…
There’s been a lot of debate over the last few years about the effectiveness of multitasking. Productivity experts make the case that trying to do more than one thing at the same time leads to poor results — and half-finished…